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Unconventional double-bended saturation of carrier occupation in optically excited graphene due to many-particle interactions

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  • Torben Winzer

    (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Martin Mittendorff

    (Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics, University of Maryland)

  • Stephan Winnerl

    (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

  • Henry Mittenzwey

    (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin)

  • Roland Jago

    (Chalmers University of Technology)

  • Manfred Helm

    (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
    Institut für Angewandte Physik, Technische Universität Dresden)

  • Ermin Malic

    (Chalmers University of Technology)

  • Andreas Knorr

    (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin)

Abstract

Saturation of carrier occupation in optically excited materials is a well-established phenomenon. However, so far, the observed saturation effects have always occurred in the strong-excitation regime and have been explained by Pauli blocking of the optically filled quantum states. On the basis of microscopic theory combined with ultrafast pump-probe experiments, we reveal a new low-intensity saturation regime in graphene that is purely based on many-particle scattering and not Pauli blocking. This results in an unconventional double-bended saturation behaviour: both bendings separately follow the standard saturation model exhibiting two saturation fluences; however, the corresponding fluences differ by three orders of magnitude and have different physical origin. Our results demonstrate that this new and unexpected behaviour can be ascribed to an interplay between time-dependent many-particle scattering and phase-space filling effects.

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  • Torben Winzer & Martin Mittendorff & Stephan Winnerl & Henry Mittenzwey & Roland Jago & Manfred Helm & Ermin Malic & Andreas Knorr, 2017. "Unconventional double-bended saturation of carrier occupation in optically excited graphene due to many-particle interactions," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 1-6, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:8:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms15042
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15042
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